Example sentences of "but [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to export half his rice crop , but for four years there has been no export and so no incentive to grow more than he needs . |
| 2 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 3 | After a previous round of talks , held in Moscow earlier in the month , Niyazov decreed on May 26 that conscripts in the Turkmen armed forces should serve for 18 months ( but for two years with the navy and for one year by those with higher education ) . |
| 4 | We were working , admittedly , on the road , but for two years not once did she … well that was it . |
| 5 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 6 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 7 | Equally no-one travelling on to Nicaragua could fail to notice the difference from Guatemala — people still have to live with civil war but for ten years have had a government that has actively promoted mental health . |
| 8 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 9 | Yet we hear so much in chapters 1–3 of the faithlessness of men in high positions in Israel ( chapter 4 will tell us that Eli was not only high priest at Shiloh but for forty years ‘ judge ’ in Israel , the one in whom resided the greatest political and spiritual as well as judicial authority among all the tribes ) . |
| 10 | But for seven years Stuart was a visibly devoted father and Lyn supported and promoted his career . |
| 11 | ROBERT Stephenson and Hawthorns Limited were not strictly a Darlington firm , but for 64 years ‘ Stivvies ’ provided employment for thousands of men in the town . |
| 12 | But for twenty years a south hereford district council has tried to get them evicted . |
| 13 | And these facts go some way to explain the astonishing further fact that the Ultra secret was kept not merely during the War , but for 30 years afterwards — a phenomenon that may well be unparalleled in history ! |
| 14 | But for 40 years her use of electricity to make objects move , speak , walk , spin , shine , click , rotate and perform has given all of these objects a special autonomy . |
| 15 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 16 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 17 | But after 10 years of Tory rule , he had had enough of that approach to politics . |
| 18 | But after 10 years of bookselling he is keen to retire . |
| 19 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 20 | But after two years of struggling , engineers at Grundig have developed a mechanism that manages the same trick while the cassette stays in place . |
| 21 | But after two years , the frustrations of the job led Selina to move on in search of a new challenge . |
| 22 | But after two years of such conferences , things began to change . |
| 23 | Nicholas 's nephew Thomas Collett , a barrister , and his wife came to Little Gidding in 1628 but after two years found that they had no vocation for its kind of life and returned to London . |
| 24 | It shows that oral treatment with a standard dose of oestrogen not only prevents bone loss but after two years produced a significant improvement in bone density . |
| 25 | The plaintiff did not enter the wool trade but after nine years the defendants stopped the pension . |
| 26 | But after four years on Blue Peter , it could be time for a move . |
| 27 | They are also proud they have managed to build up a good trade but after 15 years service at the Travellers Rest , Cockerton , the couple plan to quit in June . |
| 28 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |
| 29 | She became the mentor of the young ( Dame ) Christabel Pankhurst [ q.v. ] in 1901 , but after three years Christabel became irritated by Eva 's gentle gradualism and pacifism and abandoned her friendship for militancy . |
| 30 | After he had completed his apprenticeship he went out to India as manager of the Fort Gloster mills , but after three years returned to Glasgow and in 1838 joined his father in the manufacture of steam-engine accessories . |